Introducing Digitakt II

I found it kind of interesting that during that segment where he was talking about the Control-All on the original DT, he seemed to not fully know what he was talking about.

He said in order to use Control-All on the DT 1 that you must save your pattern before you begin changing parameters, and then you have to reload the pattern when you’re done. He said how that causes a lot of confusion and turns “people” off from using Control-All live.

Sure, that can be one way to do it, but Elektron made it so as long as you’re still holding TRK you can just press NO to revert the changes back. Nice and easy, no “goofy trip-up” there.

Alternatively, if you must let go of TRK for any reason after changing parameters, you can just copy the pattern before making any changes and simply paste it back when you’re done.
edit: -even if you’ve already moved onto the next pattern.
No saving/reloading necessary, just a quick paste.

I’ve been consistently playing live with the DT as my main music device for over 5 years and have never had a problem with this.
It was disappointing that he seemed to be blaming his personal shortcomings on the gear itself.

Not saying Perform Kit isn’t a great feature to implement (it really is), but to me it doesn’t seem as groundbreaking as he made it out to be when you know how to properly use Control-All in the first place.

Just seemed peculiar to me that someone who charges a good chunk of money for lessons on these devices doesn’t know some of the basic functionality/shortcuts.

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